Leon: The Professional trivia

Leon: The Professional Mini Quiz

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Question 1

Before her Oscar-winning role in Black Swan, who made her feature film debut at age 12 playing Mathilda in Léon: The Professional?

Portman beat over 2,000 other young actors, including Liv Tyler, for the role of Mathilda after delivering a deeply emotional audition.

Question 2

Like the protagonist in A Clockwork Orange, the villainous DEA agent in Léon: The Professional is obsessed with what composer?

Gary Oldman's character, Norman Stansfield, compares the chaotic and violent nature of his murders to the dramatic overtures found in Beethoven's symphonies.

Question 3

Hitman Léon cares for a potted plant in the film Léon: The Professional because it shares what trait with him?

Léon feels a kinship with his potted aglaonema plant due to his own isolated, nomadic life. Mathilda later plants it in a schoolyard so it can finally grow real roots.

Question 4

Orphan Mathilda begs the title character in Léon: The Professional to teach her what skill?

Mathilda seeks to become a "cleaner," the film's term for an assassin, to exact revenge on the corrupt DEA agents who murdered her four-year-old brother.

Question 5

In Léon: The Professional, hitman Léon teaches Mathilda the rifle first to achieve what tactical goal?

Léon explains that beginners use rifles to stay far away from the target. As a "cleaner" gains skill, they use weapons requiring closer proximity, ending with the knife.